Our organization is currently hosting the Healthcare System-Based Acupuncturist (LAc) Employment Practices Data Survey Project.
The survey has NOT yet (as of spring 2025) launched. This is information about the multi-year pre-survey work completed so far, the few more steps to go to launch, and a link to sign up for more news as we move through this research process.
This article also acts as a landing page for additional info to support our poster presentation at the 2025 Society of Acupuncture Research (SAR) conference in April 2025.
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Our Health Policy (Communication) Workgroup. This workgroup provides information/communication (education) about health policy that affects healthcare system-based LAc clinicians and programs. Within that broad category, focus on policy affecting patients' care access.
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Our Safety Practices Workgroup
This is the landing page for updates on past and current work from the workgroup. Upcoming events with presentations from this workgroup will also be linked here.
Safety Practices for LAcs working in healthcare system-based practice, clinicians and program managers. Workgroup dedicated to this broad topic and related issues.
How to attend the presentations and join in the community discussions.
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Learn more about our Employment Practices Workgroup.
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A knowledge-sharing communication resource for healthcare system-based LAcs and program managers. What is the Acupuncture for Our Seniors Act?
How would its passage improve your service line or program’s ability work with Medicare beneficiaries (which include adults and children) and other federal (U.S.) program beneficiaries?
Download the free communication paper. Sign up for an upcoming presentation or community discussion on the topic. The article includes references and resource links.
This free download is a white (communication) paper created by SOHHA’s Health Policy Workgroup. The workgroup created this communication resource to help you understand the federal-bill-in-waiting, HR 3133, Acupuncture for Our Seniors Act, and how it improves access to an acupuncturist’s services for adults and children who are Medicare beneficiaries or other federal program beneficiaries.
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In Review, The Hospital Handbook Project
Fall 2021 – Dec 2023
review as of February 2024.
This is a short summary regarding my activities in representing HHP on the national level and its evolution from its status as a not-for-profit program to an entirely new 501c3 nonprofit organization, the Society of Hospital & Healthcare System-Based Acupuncturists (SOHHA).
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Creation of the New Nonprofit, 501c3 Organization
The Society of Hospital & Healthcare System-based Acupuncturists
As of April 1st, 2023, this is the new nonprofit home of The Hospital Handbook Project. Learn more about this big change in this article.
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Safety Practices for LAcs, a new set of resources from the HHP
Updates on this past year’s progress with the HHP’s Safety in Practice Workgroup
The September - November 2022 HHP Safety-in-Practice Workgroup’s presentations and more.
How to attend the presentations and join in the community discussions.
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On Saturday, June 25th, 2022, I hosted a live, virtual presentation, “How to Hire and Credential LAcs in Your Healthcare System: Focus on Revenue Capture and Clinician Retention,” for the Hospital Handbook Project (HHP), a nonprofit community resource.
This was the first public presentation from the HHP’s Employment Practices Workgroup.
The event materials (pdf of slides and recordings of the presentation and the Q&A session) are now available in our Issues in Hospital-based Practice webinar series online resource.
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This weekend I am packing to travel to a conference for the week of May 23rd – 27th, 2022. I will be representing the HHP as its director at the 2022 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health, a conference hosted by the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health.
Learn more about the HHP’s presentation at the conference, how to view presentation slides, and more in this post.
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In 2022, the HHP is hosting a dedicated virtual discussion space with colleagues working in the inpatient setting. This is our Inpatient Acupuncture Discussion group.
Read this article to learn more about
how to support this dedicated and unique discussion space for our inpatient acupuncture community
how to join this discussion group
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It’s been a long road and more than a year of negotiations, and we’ve made it!
On Saturday, January 22nd, 2022, I signed an agreement with Free Range Health, to bring the Hospital Handbook Project under their nonprofit umbrella. Free Range Health is a full 501c3 nonprofit. The Hospital Handbook Project is now a program of this 501c3.
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This article is a concise review with links to podcast audio. This is an interview about how the idea for this nonprofit and the founding of the HHP came to be. Megan’s Qiological interview with Michael Max was published in December 2021.
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Answering Three Questions About the Hospital Handbook Project (HHP)
October 8th, 2021
Why did I start the HHP?
What is the vision and mission of the HHP?
What is the biggest project we are trying to solve with our work at the HHP?
Includes access to an audio version (8 minutes) as well as the original video in the article.
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Recordings, written synopsis, and discounted access to “Notes” pdf for the HHP Issues in Hospital-based Practice Webinar Series session on Medicare, the Social Security Act, and LAcs with federal integrative health legislative expert Dr. Kallie Byrd Guimond OM.D, MPH.
Links and references last updated October 8th, 2021.
Medicare coverage of acupuncture services by an acupuncturist requires inclusion legislation on the federal level.
More about why this matters and how inclusion would help overcome current care and accessibility barriers for hospital and healthcare system acupuncturists in this article.
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Looking for a list of Hospital and Healthcare System-based Acupuncture Programs?
Check out the HHP’s new publication with this information, our community’s “Summary of Citations”
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Launching the new HHP community discussion platform!
Learn more about it, who can join, and how to join in this article.
Or, if you’ve already joined, just go to the website navigation tab above, and choose “join the discussion” to log in. Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
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topics: research literacy, community discussion, COVID-19 pandemic
This group is a dedicated space for posting, sharing, and constructive discussion of this rapidly evolving topic. In the group, members vet COVID-19 resources and make the information more digestible for the community. This HHP resource helps us practice research literacy while staying updated about workplace-related developments in the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The group provides an expedient way to keep up on some of the latest research. The summaries of the articles are particularly useful.”
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Medicare coverage of acupuncture services by an acupuncturist requires inclusion legislation on the federal level.
Inclusion of acupuncturists as a recognized provider type in the Social Security Act starts with supporting federal bill HR 4803 Acupuncture for Seniors Act.
More about why this matters and how inclusion would help overcome current care and accessibility barriers for hospital and healthcare system acupuncturists in this article.
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An update on the current subscription-based options for supporting the Hospital Handbook Project (HHP).
First Steps online resource and discussion space
The New Hospital Employee online resource and discussion space
Issues in Hospital-based Practice webinar series online resource and discussion space
and more
Thank you for supporting this community resource work!
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